Paul Rand Research Paper

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Paul Rand (August 15, 1914 – November 26, 1996) was an America art director and graphic designer reknowned for his famous corporate logo designs. He was one of the first American to apply the Swiss Style (International Typographic Style) to his graphic designs. Paul Rand was educated in Pratt Institute (1929–1932), Parsons School of Design (1932-1933), and the Art Students League (1933–1934). Later in 1974, he taught design at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Rand was inducted into the New York Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 1972.
Even after his death to cancer in 1996, he remain one of the world’s most famous and honorable graphic designers thanks to his designs of many posters and corporate identities which include IBM, UPS …show more content…

He embraced to design from his childhood when he painted his father’s grocery store as well as for school events. However his father did not agree art is a good way to make a living for Rand and forcing him to attend Harren High School in the morning and Pratt Institute in the night.
Neither of these education offer much stimulation to Rand. He educated himself in the New York Public Library by exploring art print resources and learning about the A.M. Cassandre, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and the Bauhaus thanks to the European magazines such as Gebrauchsgraphik of German.
In Rand’s early career, he got a part time job designing stock images for newspaper and magazine for a syndicate while maintaining his study in art schools .During this time, he was influenced by the style of German advertising Sachplakat (object poster) and admired Gustav Jensen who was the leading designer of the day.
In the 1940s after having experience in many various job, Rand proceed to the modernize design in the advertising field. At that time, advertising in America wasn’t design but just the copy of invariably layout and Rand was consider an innovative designer believing that advertising composition was a design problem that required intelligent …show more content…

He later created his own style of modernism and simplicity and influences other designer at that time and up to now. Paul Rand promoted distinctive, memorable and clear in his design. Rand believed the simplicity from lines, shapes, and colours could become message-conveying signs and symbols. These innovations still largely influence designers these days.
Steve Job, an innovative inventor, designer who transform the world with Apple in 21th century had worked with Paul Rand in the NEXT logo deisign. It is reported that Steve Job once lectured his staff with the important of typography with the influence from Paul Rand. Steve also admire Rend and calling him ‘the greatest living graphic designer’ before his dead in 1996.
Rand lessons and books are the bible of modern design which are the guideline for many young designer. His major writings include Thoughts on Design (1947), A Designer’s Art (1985), Design, Form, and Chaos (1993), and From Lascaux to Brooklyn

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